Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a…

Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or…

How Asian Women Lead provides a vastly different picture than Western-focused leadership literature, highlighting obstacles…

A collection of essays celebrating the talents of Philip Larkin, poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1985. They…

Having provided theoretical models of such items as capacity, network, scheduling, costs, organisation, environment and…

The collection's focus is on girls' secondary education, and hence the gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes…

It illustrates how inscriptions of racial crossing - whether between white and black or black and white - are always…

This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction.…

Investigates narrative strategies in James Joyce's stories in relation to the changing contextual situations, both in the…

The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent economic sanctions on the Iraqi people.…

Produkt Art and Society in the Victorian Novel - Gibson, Colin zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave Macmillan.…

We have witnessed a revolution in the way consumers relate to a product; increasingly tending to reject brands which offer…

Despite much attention given to the topic over the last 50 years, business and environmental sustainability are not natural…

While there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion on its…

Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility…

This book explores a series of challenging new perspectives on the origins, development, and legacy of France's 'liberal…

This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and…

PMContents: Introduction: Tumbles and Leaps; Beginning in Wisdom; Towards a Rhetoric of Destitution; Excellence and Loss;…

Produkt Literature into History - Harvey, A D zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave Macmillan.…

Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification,…

A collection of essays which explore the roots of human conflict and the search for possible solutions, the text expands on…

Produkt Claude Simon and the Transgressions of Modern Art - Evans, M. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave…

The way we work is changing in the Internet age. The new majority of the workforce, women, Generation Y, the over-50s, as…

This work argues that the successful implementation of a share economy requires some substantial changes in the typical…

Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who…

This critical introduction to gay and lesbian identity within the media explores the concept of 'new storytelling'. The case…

This is a new, revised and updated paperback edition of the critically acclaimed first full-length critical assessment of…

Drawing from the tools and traditions of the American legal system, he offers guidance to aid citizens in understanding…

At the end of World War II and through the Allied occupation, the Allies deliberated whether to abolish or to preserve the…

An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account. By the same…

In this revealing book Timothy Frasca uncovers the enormous cultural changes which have taken place throughout Latin America…

A perspective on the countries involved in the Gulf conflict, dealing with the oil price dynamics, the Reagan…

Children need more than just good schooling: they require safe lives, good health, and sufficient resources to live and grow…

Produkt Understanding Language - Moore, Terence a Carling, Christine zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave…

This fascinating book provides a unique experiential view into the hidden globalization of Vodafone, in which was created a…

This in depth analysis looks at how suicide was represented in the British press when 20 young people between the ages of 15…

In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's…

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State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples\' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe.…

This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and…

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Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics,…

How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by…

Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts.…

Based on a case-study carried out in the southern city of Guangzhou in China, the book describes in compelling detail the…

Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common…

This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new…

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of…

Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the…

John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of \'poor John Clare\', the helpless victim of personal…